Submission agreement

This is what you accept when you tick the box on the submit form. Plain language, no tricks. We keep a signed copy of the exact wording that was live on the day you signed.

CLIPVAULT EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT
Reference: EXCLUSIVE-50-2026

1. WHO THIS IS BETWEEN
This agreement is made between ClipVault ("we", "us") and the person submitting the
video ("you", "the licensor"). It takes effect the moment you tick the acceptance box and send
us the video ("the Work"), and it applies to that Work only.

2. WHAT YOU PROMISE US
You confirm that you are at least 18 years old, that you own every right in the Work, and that
you have not given anyone else the right to license, sell or distribute it. If you did not film
the Work yourself, you confirm you have written permission from the person who did, and you give
us their contact details so we can verify. You confirm that anyone clearly identifiable in the
Work agreed to be filmed, that the Work contains no material you took from someone else, and
that nothing in it is unlawful. You confirm the Work is not subject to any pending dispute.

3. WHAT YOU GRANT US
You grant us an exclusive, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable licence to use, copy, edit,
publish, distribute, monetise and sub-license the Work in every medium now known or later
invented. Exclusive means that during the term neither you nor anybody else may license, sell
or monetise the Work; you may still keep your own copy and show it on your personal accounts
where you already posted it, provided you disclose those accounts in section 11.

⭐ This exclusivity attaches to the WORK, not to you. You remain completely free to film
whatever you like, to post it wherever you like, and to license or sell any other footage to
anyone, including our competitors. Nothing here makes you our employee, our agent or our
contractor, and nothing here obliges you to produce anything for us, ever.

We may register the Work with rights-management programmes operated by video platforms so that
unauthorised copies can be found, claimed and monetised on your behalf and ours.

4. WHAT WE PAY YOU — FIFTEEN KINDS OF INCOME
Every payment under this agreement is a ROYALTY for the licence you grant us in section 3. It
is not payment for work performed, and no part of it is a fee for any activity by you.

Your royalty is a share of NET RECEIPTS. Net receipts means the money that actually reaches our
bank account for the Work, in the currency it reaches us. Where a platform or an intermediary
keeps a share before paying us, we calculate on what arrives, not on the gross figure shown in
their dashboard. Two examples, so there is no argument later:
  · A video platform reports $100 and keeps its own share before remitting. If $55 reaches us,
    your royalty is calculated on $55.
  · An agency licenses the Work for $1,000 and keeps 30%. If $700 reaches us, your royalty is
    calculated on $700.

  A · WHEN SOMEONE LICENSES THE WORK FROM US
      1  Direct licence sold on our marketplace ................. 50%
      2  Commissioned request from a buyer ...................... 50%
      3  Buyout — you accept one lump sum ...................... one payment, then no further share
      4  Licence resold through a third-party agency ............ 40% of what reaches us

  B · WHEN WE PUBLISH THE WORK OURSELVES
      5  Our own long-form video channel ....................... 35%
      6  Our own short-form video (Shorts, Reels, TikTok) ...... 35%, pooled separately from 5
      7  A finished production of ours sold on to another outlet 35%
      8  Our own website or application ........................ 35%
      9  Sponsorship on our own channels ....................... 0%
         Sponsorship is paid for the audience we built, not for the Work, so it is not shared.
     10  Someone reuploads a production of ours that contains
         the Work, and we collect on that reupload ............. 35%

  C · WHEN WE GO AND COLLECT
     11  Platform rights-management programmes ................. 45%
         This covers YouTube Content ID, Meta Rights Manager, the equivalent programme on
         TikTok, and any comparable programme a platform operates in future.
     12  Blanket licence — a subscriber pays a fixed periodic fee
         for broad access ...................................... 40%
     13  Settlement for past unauthorised use .................. 40% of what remains after legal costs
     14  Damages awarded by a court ............................ 40% of what remains after lawyer costs

  D · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE — ONLY IF YOU SAY YES
     15  Licensing the Work as training data for AI models ..... 40%

     ⛔ This one is OFF unless you switch it on. We will not include the Work in any AI training
     licence unless you have given us separate, explicit, recorded permission. Silence is not
     permission, and ticking the acceptance box for this agreement is not permission either.
     You may withdraw that permission at any time for future licences; licences already granted
     before you withdrew cannot be recalled, because the data has already been delivered.
     Saying no costs you nothing: it has no effect whatsoever on any of the fourteen other kinds
     of income above, on how we price the Work, or on whether we promote it.

  E · NEW KINDS OF INCOME THAT DO NOT EXIST YET
     Ways of earning from footage keep appearing. When we open one, the Work is covered by this
     agreement automatically and you share in it. ⛔ You do not sign anything again, and there
     is no addendum to chase.

     Because that is a broad right, it comes with three limits that bind us, not you:

     (a) WE TELL YOU FIRST. Before a new kind of income starts, we notify you by e-mail and
         publish it on our website, stating what it is, the exact percentage, and the date it
         starts. We do not switch anything on quietly.

     (b) NEVER BELOW 35%. Whatever the new kind of income is, your share of net receipts from
         it will not be less than 35%. We may set it higher; we may not set it lower. This
         floor is a promise you can hold us to, not a target.

     (c) YOU CAN REFUSE IT, ONE KIND AT A TIME. You have 30 days from the date of our notice
         to tell us the Work is not to be used for that particular kind of income. Refusing one
         has no effect on any of the others, and no effect on how we price or promote the Work.
         · An ordinary new kind of income is ON unless you refuse — that is what saves you from
           signing paperwork every time.
         · A kind that touches something people feel strongly about — training artificial
           intelligence is the example we already have — is OFF until you say yes, exactly as
           in section 4 D.

     We record the date of every notice and of every refusal, and you can see both in your
     account at any time.

A single sub-licence pays you at most $1000 USD. Where one licensee pays a single
fee covering several works, we split that fee across those works in proportion to their list
price.

5. COSTS WE MAY DEDUCT — A CLOSED LIST
Before calculating your royalty we may deduct only these, and nothing else:
  (a) fees charged by the platform, marketplace or intermediary through which the money came;
  (b) payment processing and bank charges, and currency conversion costs;
  (c) refunds and chargebacks on money already counted;
  (d) legal costs actually incurred in recovering money under items 13 and 14, supported by an
      invoice we will show you on request.

This list is closed. We do not deduct our own salaries, our office costs, our editing time or
our marketing spend, and there is no residual category of "other reasonable costs".

6. TAX
Tax on what you receive is yours to pay. Separately from that, where any law requires us to
withhold an amount before paying you, we will withhold it and remit it to the authority
concerned, and that withheld amount counts as paid to you under this agreement. We will give
you a statement of anything withheld.

To let us withhold at the correct rate — often a lower one — you must give us a completed tax
form and a certificate of tax residency, and tell us within 30 days if either stops being
accurate. Until we hold valid documents we are obliged to withhold at the highest rate the law
allows, and we cannot refund the difference once it has been remitted.

7. SET-OFF
If money already counted towards your royalty is later reversed — a platform adjusts an earlier
payment, a card payment is charged back, or we refund a licensee — we deduct the corresponding
amount from your next statement. If your balance is not enough to cover it, the shortfall carries
forward against future royalties. We do not ask you to send money back.

8. WHEN AND HOW YOU ARE PAID
We close the books on the last day of each calendar month and count only money that had actually
reached us by 23:59 UTC on that day. We pay on the 25th of the following month, provided your
balance is at least $75 USD; a smaller balance carries over. If a balance below the
threshold has not been paid out within 24 months, we pay it anyway at the end of that
period rather than keep it.

Where money reached us in another currency we convert it at the rate on the day the books
closed, and we show that rate on your statement. Transfer charges are deducted from the payment;
you choose the payment method from the options we offer.

Your statement shows, for every amount: which Work earned it, which of the fifteen kinds above
it belongs to, the gross figure, what was deducted under section 5, and your share.

9. WHAT WE DO NOT PROMISE
We decide whether to accept the Work, how to price it, who to license it to and on what terms.
We are not obliged to publish, promote or license the Work at all, and we make no promise that
it will earn anything.

10. ATTRIBUTION
We credit you as the source wherever the licensee's format reasonably allows. You keep authorship
of the Work; we do not ask you to give up your moral rights, and we will not present the Work as
having been created by us.

11. YOUR DISCLOSURES
You must tell us every place the Work is already posted and every party you have already talked
to about licensing it. Failing to disclose is a breach and lets us cancel this agreement and
recover any money already paid.

12. TAKING THE WORK BACK
You may ask us in writing to end this agreement at any time after 24 months from acceptance.
We may end it at any time on 30 days' notice. When it ends, we stop offering the Work for new
licences and the exclusivity in section 3 falls away. Licences we have already granted to third
parties stay valid, and we keep the right to keep serving those licensees and to keep the Work
in our archive for record-keeping. Money already earned is still paid to you.

13. IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG
If a third party claims rights in the Work and that claim turns out to be right, you repay us
what we paid you for it, and you cover the direct costs we reasonably incur. Our total liability
to you is limited to the money we have received for the Work.

14. LAW
This agreement is governed by the laws of the place where ClipVault is established.
Disputes go first to good-faith negotiation, then to the courts of that place.

By ticking the acceptance box you confirm you have read this agreement, that everything you told
us is true, and that you agree to be bound by it.